Liparophyllum. | GENTIANE. 457 
lobes. Ovary broadly ovoid or almost globose; ovules numerous. 
Fruit globose, about +in. diam. Seeds orbicular, somewhat com- 
pressed.— Fl. Tasm. i 973, t. 87; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 381; 
Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii. (1880) BO4. 
Sourn IstAnp: Nelson—Mount Rochfort and other mountains near West- 
port, Dr. Gaze! W. Townson! Otago—Longwood Range, Kirk! Srewarr 
Isnanp: Muddy flats at Port Pegasus and Paterson’s Inlet, Petrie! G. M, 
Thomson! Kirk ! Sea-level to 3500 ft. 
A curious little plant, probably not uncommon in mountain bogs on the 
west side of the South Island. 
Orver LI. BORAGINACEA:. 
Annual or perennial herbs or more rarely trees or shrubs, 
usually rough with coarse hairs. Leaves alternate, seldom oppo- 
site, simple, entire or toothed ; stipules wanting. Flowers regular, 
hermaphrodite, usually arranged in one-sided simple or forked 
gyrate spikes or racemes (in reality scorpioid *cymes), rarely soli- 
tary. Calyx inferior, 5-lobed or -partite, persistent. Corolla gamo- 
petalous, hypogynous; throat often closed with hairs or scales ; 
lobes usually 5, seldom 4, imbricate. Stamens the same number as 
the lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, inserted on the 
tube or throat of the corolla; anthers 2-celled, opening lengthwise. 
Ovary superior, deeply 4-lobed and 4-celled in the majority of the 
species and in all those found in New Zealand, sometimes entire or 
2-lobed ; style from between the ovary-lobes or terminal; stigma 
capitate or 2-lobed ; ovules solitary in each cell, ascending. Fruit 
usually composed of 4 indehiscent nutlets or pyrenes, rarely dru- 
paceous. Seed erect or oblique, testa membranous; albumen 
copious or scanty or wanting; embryo straight or curved, radicle 
superior. 
A large and widely distributed order, found in all parts of the world, the 
herbaceous genera most abundant in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in 
south Hurope and the Levant; the shrubby and arborescent ones mainly tropi- 
cal. Genera about 70; species estimated at 1200. The properties of the order 
are unimportant. Some of the species are mucilaginous and emollient, and 
have been used in medicine. The roots of others, such as Anchusa (alkanet), 
yield a red dye. The heliotrope, forget-me-not, and many others are cultivated 
for ornament. Of the three indigenous genera, Myosotis has a wide range in 
temperate climates ; the remaining two are endemic. 
* Calyx and corolla 5-lobed. 
Leaves alternate. Racemes bractless. Nuts small, 
smooth and polished, on a flat receptacle 54 . 1. Myosoris. 
Leaves chiefly radical, large and broad. Nuts large, with 
broad wings, attached to a central conical receptacle .. 2. Myosoripium. 
** Calyx and corolla 4-lobed. 
Small intricately branched herb, Leaves opposite .. 93. TETRACHONDRA. 
